The left leaning NGO, Center for American Progress, has announced that U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power will be in Washington tomorrow to speak to them about Syria. Will the Russians be there, too? Why would Power leave New York and stop negotiating with the Russians on a U.N. Syria resolution at …
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The Obama administration is today still reeling from Thursday’s enormous setback to the Syria intervention effort, as the UK voted to reject military intervention in the war-torn nation. It is difficult to overestimate just how devastating this is to the President’s foreign policy. Britain has stood side by side with …
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In a rare historic moment for humanity, the BBC reported on June 30, 2013, that “the number of anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters today in Egypt is the largest number in a political event in the history of mankind.” The Egyptian military used helicopters to track the protests across Egypt and estimated …
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For years I have been writing about the failures of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) as a warning for what the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) will do to health care here in the U.S. London’s Daily Mail has chronicled the growing problems with the NHS, which include declining …
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With Benghazi, has Hillary Clinton hit what President Obama might call a “bump on the road” in her widely assumed bid for the presidency in 2016? Some Republicans say yes. According to National Public Radio, “high-profile Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who is displaying signs of being interested in …
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MANCHESTER, England – There is a story about Margaret Thatcher, which is probably apocryphal, but speaks volumes about the strength of Britain’s first female prime minister, who died Monday at age 87. Following her election in 1979, the story goes that Thatcher took her all-male cabinet out to dinner. The …
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The long war in Iraq—known to the U.S. military as Operation Iraqi Freedom—has been labeled many things from a war of liberation to an illegal occupation to the worst American military blunder since Vietnam. But for those who served on the battlefields of Iraq, who fought the enemy and sacrificed …
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President Obama has said that he wants to help Democrats win back a majority in the House of Representatives. He says he looks forward to Nancy Pelosi being speaker again. If he does work hard to elect House Democrats, it will be a change from 2010 and 2012, when he …
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Why bother with inaugurations? Are they really that important. Yes, they are. Inaugurations are essential because: • They are a picture of our representative government. • They show the world a peaceful transfer of power. • They put the “united” in United States. • They remind us of the past …
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If the latest Jihadi beheader is actually an American … Or someone who was lucky enough to come to this country and spend a lot of time no doubt being educated here … Where does that put us in this fight against ISIS? Let’s just say he’s an American who …
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